Classicly Books
Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, Vol. 2
Royal Geographical SocietyThermometers are either direct-reading or self-registering. The former are used for obtaining the temperature at any given moment, the latter for ascertaining the highest or the lowest temperature in ..
Our Changing Morality: A Symposium
Freda KirchweyMuch has been said about sex—and everything remains to be said. Largely, new conclusions will be reached through new processes of living. People will act—and then a new code will grow up. But along th..
South-West Africa
William EveleighIt is impossible in a small book to deal more than briefly with the subject, and very slight treatment has had to suffice for many matters of interest. I hope, however, that I have succeeded in convey..
Ten Essays on Zionism and Judaism
Ahad Ha'amIt is because Achad Ha-Am has consistently driven home the lesson reiterated in these last words, and because that lesson is so strikingly apt at the present time, that one feels justified to-day in p..
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (December 1912)
Various AuthorsBEFORE day on Christmas morning, Christine, accompanied by Howard Cleves, a big boy from the school, set forth for the head of Clinch, the great “pokes” of Christmas things slung across the saddles st..
White Cockades
Edward Prime-StevensonYoung Boyd did not cut down oak-trees for a livelihood, though he just now worked as if fortune had mapped a no less arduous career for him. He was the only son of a wealthy landholder of the vicinity..
A Marriage in High Life, Volume II
Lady ScottEmmeline knew but too well whither the letter would follow him; but thinking he might not receive it in time, or that, possibly, in the society he then was, he might be little inclined to attend such ..
Metzerott, Shoemaker
Katharine Pearson WoodsThe shoemaker’s dwelling contained but three rooms. The front, a shingled frame building of one story, presented its pointed gable at the street like a huge caret, denoting that all the sky and stars,..